Navarro Research and Engineering earned roughly 93% of its total potential fee for its environmental work at the Energy Department’s Nevada National Nuclear Site (NNSS) over a 16-month period ended Jan. 31.
That’s the crux of a recently published fee performance scorecard from the DOE Office of Environmental Management. Oak-Ridge, Tenn.-based Navarro earned about $1.13 million out of a potential $1.21 million, during the period, according to the scorecard.
The company won $441,556 of the available $490,618 subjective award fee, according to the five-page document. It also earned $716,569 out of a potential $719,680 on the objective incentive fee, which is based upon explicit deliverables or milestones.
During Navarro’s prior performance report, for fiscal 2018, the company won 92%, or $942,407 of a total potential $998,737 for the budget period ending Sept. 30, 2018.
The just-released scorecard rates Navarro’s work as “excellent” in four areas: business relations, management of key people and subcontracts, cost control, and health and safety. It was deemed “very good” in two other areas: schedule and quality of products or service.
The report also said Navarro was also key in planning the move of Office of Environmental Management officials in Nevada to a new office in the Molasky Corporate Center in Downtown Las Vegas from another building in North Las Vegas.
The Energy Department did not identify significant deficiencies during the period, although a key area for improvement is implementation of a comprehensive electronic waste profile and approval process. The agency in July 2019 acknowledged that nine improperly characterized shipments of mixed-low-level radioactive waste were sent from the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee to the NNSS for disposal from 2013 through December 2018. The Nevada site is licensed to take both low-level and mixed-low-level wastes as part of the disposal program run by Navarro.
Earlier this month, the incumbent won a new contract potentially worth $350 million over a decade to continue providing environmental services at Nevada. The current contract, valued at almost $85 million, began in March 2015 and is set to expire July 31.
In addition to managing the site’s Radioactive Waste Acceptance Program (RWAP), Navarro’s work includes groundwater characterization and monitoring, along with decontamination and demolition.
